A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Xiaopingtai is busy developing the economy without touching the ground. The gratifying results are just around the corner, as one pillar industry can drive multiple additional industries. Both the upstream and downstream industries are booming, forming a well-functioning industrial chain. Although making money every day has not started yet, it is true that you can see money coming in every day.

This feeling is really good, as if the plants and trees that I have carefully cared for are blooming and bearing fruit, and I feel a sense of accomplishment. When everyone raises a cactus, they remember to water it and bask it in the sun. Now that Xiaoping is raising not just cactus, but a big industry related to the livelihood of tens of thousands of people, he is naturally more happy.

Leaving aside the delighted Koheita, Echigo's Uesugi Terutora finally cleaned up the mess caused by Ichigo. In addition, after Naoe Keizuna returned to the country, he and Nagao Masakei were in charge of Fuchu Kasugayama, so they took a group of hungry people with them. Six thousand people from Echigo's army, whose eyes were piercing with rays of light, once again marched out of Kantō.

Anyway, the spring plowing in Echigo has been delayed in many places, and there is no land left for planting. It is clear that a famine is going to happen this year. Instead of starving to death at home, it’s better to go out and grab some. With this goal in mind, the people of Echigo became so excited when they heard that Terutora Uesugi was going to fight in Kanto, and they all took the initiative to join the war with their own weapons.

It made everyone feel like they were going to an amusement park, vying for spots in the expedition and almost fighting. That scene was simply amazing. If anyone is present, they must recite a few lines of crooked poetry to praise the spectacle of Echigo men rushing to join the army.

Because this time the Echigo people were eager to go out to conquer (rob) and (rob) the sand (capture) field (plunder), so this time they acted very quickly. The army swore an oath and set out at Kasuga Mountain. It didn't have much food or baggage at all, so it moved forward lightly. It took only two days to reach the Numata area. Hui Hu immediately issued a royal letter, calling on the Kwantung soldiers and horses to come and join together.

The response from the people in Ueno was very positive. Ueno's left-behind soldier Hirai Castle Dai Amanza Nagashige (Amanza Kagemochi, anyway, I'm talking about one person) quickly led various armies led by Higashi Ueno Uesugi Ken|Masagosuke to participate. Nagano Because Ye Zheng wanted to defend Murakami Yoshikiyo, he only asked Obata, Wada, Dahu, Saito, and Takadome Nagano to assist Uesugi Teruhora.

Terutora Uesugi was very dissatisfied when he saw that Nagano Yamasa, who could mobilize 10,000 people, only came with two or three kittens. As a result, the people from the small county who came together cried and complained about Murakami Yoshikiyo's sneak attack on the small county and Ueno. When Terutora Uesugi heard this, he realized that Murakami Yoshikiyo, the evil thief who had attacked and forced his subordinate Shinano to guard Ogasawara Nagasaki, actually dared to beat up a countryman from a small prefecture, and he didn't take him seriously at all.

As the saying goes, even when beating a dog, it depends on the owner. Uesugi Teruhu doesn't care about the territory of a small county or a larger one. But the people in the small county were holding their own flag, and Murakami Yoshikiyo was just slapping Uesugi Teruatora in the face to make others laugh. It turned out that the dignified Uesugi Teruatora couldn't even protect his own younger brother.

So Teruhora Uesugi flew to Yamauchi Fuchu Castle with a royal letter. Yamauchi Yoshiharu immediately pulled 2,500 people from Yamauchi to help him.

The more than 14,000 Uesugi Teruhora coalition forces immediately broke into the small county. Since the team was composed of returning regiments, they were not afraid of any rash advance. Following Kuzuo Castle, they advanced all the way, which scared Murakami Yoshikiyo and hurriedly gathered his younger brothers. Uesugi Teru's first glance was just right. He caught eight thousand people from Murakami Yoshikiyo and beat him up violently. The two sides went back and forth and clashed with each other by the Kamikawa River.

Terutora Uesugi is extremely talented. Once he reaches the battlefield, his IQ can surpass the universe. Kamikawa is an ordinary river flowing through the small prefecture, but because it originates between the Shinano mountains, his upstream water flow begins. The melted water from ice and snow is very cold, even in summer.

However, as this cold spring water rich in mountain minerals gradually warms up as it enters the valley, it nourishes the grass on the slopes on both sides of the Kamikawa River. As a result, the water plants surrounding the Kamikawa River are particularly plump and plump, and they grow happily even in summer. . 【Note 1】

In addition, the river water in this area is no longer cold, and people can drink it directly. Therefore, after the battle every day, the Murakami Army will always drive their war horses and pack horses here to eat grass and drink water, and also collect water for the eight thousand troops to drink.

Teruhora Uesugi didn't know where he learned the specific situation of Kamikawa from upstream to downstream, and he led a small county returning group to make a plan that no one knew about. It was decided at that moment to take advantage of the evening after the battle to lead the elite Echigo samurai to raid the Murakami Army who had come out to herd horses and fetch water.

As a result, just as Terutora Uesugi expected, the eight thousand Murakami Army, including Murakami Yoshikiyo, moved to the middle reaches of Kamikawa in the evening after a day of fighting.

Seeing that they had arrived just in time, Uesugi Terutora led a thousand cavalrymen and launched a surprise attack on Murakami Yoshikiyo while the Murakami army's horses were unsaddled and the samurai were empty for water.

Murakami Yoshikiyo never expected that Uesugi Terutora could know his camp, and he was completely unprepared. The brave soldiers of the Murakami Army are braver. However, when faced with a sudden surprise attack, only a few people can fight back. The first thought of many more people is definitely to run away.

So Uesugi Teruhora showed off his might and kept fighting for more than two hours until dark. At one point, he even broke through to Murakami Yoshikiyo, killing the Murakami army coalition and completely collapsed. Eight thousand people cried for their fathers and mothers, abandoned their helmets and armor and fled to Kuzuo Castle.

Murakami's military planners included Yashiro Motonaga, the lord of Shinano Makishima Castle, Kojima Gonbei Shigenari, Amamiya Masato, Yashiro Motsuna (this man was the eldest son of Yashiro Masakuni), and Wakatsuki Kiyonaga who died in the battle. There were countless injured people, and there were more than 300 corpses dumped by the Shen River alone.

Murakami Yoshikiyo's already unstable rule in Xiaoxian County completely collapsed. Even Matsuo Castle, the important town of Xiaoxian County, was abandoned in the pursuit on the second day, with more than 720 casualties along the way.

Everyone in the small county who had been driven away by Murakami Yoshikiyo was in high spirits, sighing that they really had a good friend, and Uesugi Teruhora was indeed a famous general in the world. No matter how tough Murakami Yoshikiyo was when he beat us rookies, now that our eldest brother Uesugi Teruhora is here, we still have to fight to the death.

Uesugi Teruhora managed to appease the small county residents, then plundered a large amount of food and grass, and continued to attack Musashi.

What no one paid attention to was that a samurai named Yukitsuna Sanada relied on his own intelligence and felt that Terutora Uesugi would not come to vent his anger for him if he was trapped in Echigo for a while, so he couldn't wait for reinforcements from Echigo and went south to join Takeda Harunobu early.

[Note 1]: I don’t know the principle of this terrain, but there is a place along the Kamikawa River called Sanada Township. Sanada Township later produced Sanada Nobushige, so it became famous all over the world. In addition, due to geographical reasons, this is one of the famous Shinano Eight Shepherds, which is especially suitable for raising horses.